Albert Einstein was very slow to speak and his parents feared he wasn’t too bright. One day, when he was sick in bed, they gave him a compass to keep him occupied. The new plaything made him wonder about magnetic fields, which got him interested in physics, and, well, you know the rest.

Albert Einstein was very slow to speak and his parents feared he wasn’t too bright. One day, when he was sick in bed, they gave him a compass to keep him occupied. The new plaything made him wonder about magnetic fields, which got him interested in physics, and, well, you know the rest.